Reply To: Google Ads
Ho ho… OK now for some clarification.
Look around this site and you will see ads that say “Ads by Google”. Every time someone clicks on an actual ad link in one of these boxes, Google keeps track of it and pays me X number of cents.
However, the downside is that any website owner can just click away and make him or herself rich. Google is very good at sniffing this out, however, and takes this very seriously. So, while I welcome the sudden surge in ad clicks, I’m concerned that these might be false clicks because I’m going from something like 3 clicks per week to now around 15 per day (average for the past 3 days). That is really a HUGE jump.
If it’s because this site has suddenly been promoted and more people are visiting and it’s real traffic, then woohoo! I am happy. But if it’s some disgruntled spammer who’s trying to get me in trouble, then that’s not good.
By the way, as you’ve noticed, there’s zero spam these days because I’m manually approving registrations now, as well as having implemented textual confirmation in registrations, which has greatly reduced the number of new registrations.
Anyways, yeah, hope you are all enjoying the site, it’s good to see a lot of healthy growth since I launched it…
Cheers…